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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELRTDEVEL-8585639
  • published31 Dec 2024
  • disclosed27 Dec 2024

Introduced: 27 Dec 2024

CVE-2024-53206  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-devel package and not the kernel-rt-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tcp: Fix use-after-free of nreq in reqsk_timer_handler().

The cited commit replaced inet_csk_reqsk_queue_drop_and_put() with __inet_csk_reqsk_queue_drop() and reqsk_put() in reqsk_timer_handler().

Then, oreq should be passed to reqsk_put() instead of req; otherwise use-after-free of nreq could happen when reqsk is migrated but the retry attempt failed (e.g. due to timeout).

Let's pass oreq to reqsk_put().